NEW ZEALAND NEWS,

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1185, 21 July 1911, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS,

Uir lxjleEraDli— Press Association.! 4 CHILDREN'S HEALTH-STATE TO PAY? . Wanganui, July,2o. Al the annual mooting of the Wang/Inui School Committees,' Association 8 -resolution- was carried that the 'Wanganui branch of the School ' Coramilit'os 1 Association approves of a system of dental and medical inspection of school children, and that tho cost bo a clkum ou tho State. LICENSING—GORE CASES. Gore, July.2o. At the Magistrate's Court, Henry Baldwin was fined JCSO for filing liquor. oil Coronation Day, and was ordered to come up for sentence when, called on for keeping. liquor for sale. John Whitlinghaiu, a brewer, at' Gore, 'charged .on three .informations with selling beer from.a doiwt at lliversdale for delivery in Gore, a NoLicense district, and for failure- to notify tho clerk of the court of such sales, was convicted and fined ,£5 on each information, with, one guinea costs, .lie was. also fined £1 on each of three informations for failing to enter sales in his books. . . ~ BUTTER AND CHEESE. Dunedin,. July 20. Thirty-ono factories are competing ior (lie grade prizes in cheese at the coming Winter Show of tho Otago A. and P. Society. Their exhibits are already forward for judging, and it is stated on good authority that eonr, petition will hcvfcry cloi>o indeed, and the margin lietween tho leading factories will bo matters of decimal points only. The secretary of the South Island Association has been advised by cablegram from London, as follows:—"Owing to the serious drought in Great Britain, and tho Continent and Siberia, anil, tho liea.t tn the United States and-Canada, wo expect high prices for dairy produco 'next season." Mr. Scott takes tliis to apply moro particularly to choose. Ho does not anticipate- that tho butter market will exceed lid. a lb., f.o.b. (a satisfactory enough price for the New Zealand produoer), tho London equivalent. of which will, be about 12Jd. a lb. wholesale. Wairoa, July 20. A prolonged shock of earthquake occurred at 9.35 last .night! The direction was north' and Bouth.